Currently, health management driven by intelligent means is a general demand of social systems. Although a number of researchers have paid attention to such areas, they have primarily focused on improving the performance of intelligent algorithms. Such intelligent algorithms are mostly based on the central computing mode, where all the user data are aggregated together in a central cloud to implement computing tasks. This poses a great threat to personal privacy due to exposure to the outside world. To address this challenge, this work uses a federated learning mechanism and proposes a privacy-preserving social computing framework for health management. User data are deposited in different user terminals to prevent exposure. A group of parameters are pretrained for each terminal in an iteration and are then transferred to the center cloud for updating. After multiple rounds of interactive training between the center cloud and the terminals, a recognition model finishes training for each terminal without direct access to data from other sources. Finally, this work also conducts experiments on a real-world dataset to assess the overall performance of the proposed approach.

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) facilitate private data collecting via (a broad range of) sensors, and the analysis of such data can inform decision making at different levels. Federated learning (FL) can be used to analyze the collected data, in privacy-preserving manner by transmitting model updates instead of private data in IIoT networks. The FL framework is, however, vulnerable because model updates are easily tampered with by malicious agents. Motivated by this observation, we propose a novel chameleon hash scheme with a changeable trapdoor (CHCT) for secure FL in IIoT settings. Our scheme imposes various constraints on the use of trapdoor. We give a rigorous security analysis on our CHCT scheme. We also instantiate the CHCT scheme as a redactable medical blockchain (RMB). The experimental evaluations demonstrate the practical utility of CHCT in terms of accuracy and efficiency.

Falsified faces generated by DeepFake are severe threats to our community. Many smart systems in industry 4.0, such as electronic payments and identity verification rely on bioinformation authentication. These applications may compromise with forgeries generated by DeepFake. Notwithstanding many promising results on DeepFake forensics have been reported recently, we are now facing new security challenges brought by anti-forensics attacks. With adversarial perturbations injected by anti-forensics algorithms, falsified faces could masquerade themselves to disrupt forensics detectors as well as industrial applications. Therefore, to secure biometric data, in particular facial information, we propose a countermeasure against the attacks of DeepFake anti-forensics. The proposed model features dual channels and multiple supervisors to capture biological attributes from manifold aspects. After training, the proposed method can purify anti-forensics images by eliminating adversarial perturbations. With experimental evaluations, we show that purified faces are highly distinguishable from real ones. The proposed method is justified as a reliable defense tool for protecting facial bioinformation against anti-forensics amid Industry 4.0.

The development of deep learning enables the production of new images via generative adversarial networks (GANs). The GANs have now been widely applied in the industry as well as academic research that brought tremendous progress to our community. Many researchers in medical imaging also introduced this novel technology for medical image reconstruction, segmentation, synthesis, etc. On the other hand, the GAN-generated images may also suffer from exhibiting unique textures, namely the checkerboard artifacts. For medical diagnosis and healthcare, such artifacts could bring negative impacts as they may distort information collected in medical images. Improper treatment and rehabilitation plans based on the disinformation of checkerboard artifacts could be harmful for patients and healthcare cyber physical systems. Thus, we investigate the checkerboard artifact synthesized during adversarial training in this paper. Based on the theoretical analysis, we propose a method for GANs to generate images without producing checkerboard artifacts. It could protect medical images preserving high integrity for healthcare cyber physical systems. Our experiments justify the efficiency of proposed method when associating with a variety of GANs for image synthesis. Also, we prove that it is feasible to detect GAN-generated images by tracing the checkerboard artifacts.

So far, researchers have proposed many forensics tools to protect the authenticity and integrity of digital information. However, with the explosive development of machine learning, existing forensics tools may compromise against new attacks anytime. Hence, it is always necessary to investigate anti-forensics to expose the vulnerabilities of forensics tools. It is beneficial for forensics researchers to develop new tools as countermeasures. To date, one of the potential threats is the generative adversarial networks (GANs), which could be employed for fabricating or forging falsified data to attack forensics detectors. In this article, we investigate the anti-forensics performance of GANs by proposing a novel model, the ExS-GAN, which features an extra supervision system. After training, the proposed model could launch anti-forensics attacks on various manipulated images. Evaluated by experiments, the proposed method could achieve high anti-forensics performance while preserving satisfying image quality. We also justify the proposed extra supervision via an ablation study.

Due to the strain on land resources, marine energy development is expanding, in which the submarine cable occupies an important position. Therefore, periodic inspections of submarine cables are required. Submarine cable inspection is typically performed using underwater vehicles equipped with cameras. However, the motion of the underwater vehicle body, the dim light underwater, and the property of light propagation in water lead to problems such as the blurring of submarine cable images, the lack of information on the position and characteristics of the submarine cable, and the blue–green color of the images. Furthermore, the submarine cable occupies a significant portion of the image as a linear entity. In this paper, we propose an improved YOLO-SC (YOLO-Submarine Cable) detection method based on the YOLO-V3 algorithm, build a testing environment for submarine cables, and create a submarine cable image dataset. The YOLO-SC network adds skip connections to feature extraction to make the position information of submarine cables more accurate, a top-down downsampling structure in multi-scale special fusion to reduce the network computation and broaden the network perceptual field, and lightweight processing in the prediction network to accelerate the network detection. Under laboratory conditions, we illustrate the effectiveness of these modifications through ablation studies. Compared to other algorithms, the average detection accuracy of the YOLO-SC model is increased by up to 4.2%, and the average detection speed is decreased by up to 1.616 s. The experiments demonstrate that the YOLO-SC model proposed in this paper has a positive impact on the detection of submarine cables.